After yet another elimination on the feature table, the field has been reduced to the last 24 hopefuls and they will now redraw to the final three tables. All PokerNews updates will now be published according to the 30 minute delay of the live stream table.
The hand took place before the three-table redraw.
On the flop, Joao Vieira in the big blind with the checked over to David Peters in the hijack with and faced a bet of 240,000, which the Portuguese called. On the turn, Vieira checked once more and Peters bet 850,000 to pick up a call from the Portuguese.
Vieira rivered the flush with the and checked to Peters, who bet 4 million and was snap-called by Vieira.
After losing a big portion of his stack against David Peters, Joao Vieira in the big blind called the shove of Ilya Bulychev in the small blind for 675,000.
Ilya Bulychev:
Joao Vieira:
The board came and Vieira spiked the eight on the river to eliminate Bulychev.
Koray Aldemir squeezed to 540,000 preflop with the from the hijack and Martin Kabrhel called with the in late position. On the flop, Kabrhel checked and called a bet of 500,000 to see the on the turn, giving him an additional flush draw.
Igor Kurganov opened to 360,000 and Adrian Mateos defended his big blind.
The flop came and both players checked. The turn was the . Mateos bet 800,000 and Kurganov called.
The river was the . Mateos tanked before moving all in for 2.85m. Kurganov quickly called but pulled a face when shown the of his opponent. Kurganov held and the river was the meaning Mateos doubled up.
Richard Yong was involved in a pretty big pot with Christoph Vogelsang. There was already well over 1,500,000 in the pot when the board was dealt.
Yong check-called a bet of 850,000 on the turn and Yong checked again once the river was dealt. Vogelsang bet enough to put Yong all in, for a total of 2,400,000. Yong called within a couple of seconds and opened up , which was more than enough to beat the of Vogelsang.
Paul Phua raised to 375,000 on the button with the and Dominik Nitsche called in the big blind with the . The flop gave Nitsche a flushdraw and he checked, Phua continued for 400,000 with around 2,600,000 behind. Nitsche called and the followed on the turn to give Phua top pair.
Nitsche checked once more and Phua fired a second barrel for 800,000, which resulted in the check-shove of Nitsche with his flushdraw and gutshot straight draw. Phua called it off and the river improved Nitsche to a winning flush.
Timothy Adams opened to 475,000 from the button and Orpen Kisacikoglu three-bet to 1,730,000 from the small blind.
Mikita Badziakouski then moved all in from the big blind for 1,250,000. Adams called. "It's a magic trick!" said Badziakouski as the three players went to a flop.
The flop was and the two active players checked. The turn was the . Kisacikoglu bet 700,000 and Adams folded.
"Show the bluff!" said Badziakouski and Kisacikoglu nodded, much to Adams' chagrin.
Mikita Badziakouski:
Orpen Kisacikoglu:
The river was the and Badziakouski - who had been standing up, bag in hand for most of the hand - tripled up.
"It's just a miracle," said Badziakouski.
"That's why you are winning all tournaments," murmured tablemate Vladimir Troyanovskiy.